{"id":73689,"date":"2026-08-02T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73689"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:43:43","slug":"van-catches-fire-in-pasir-ris-car-park-front-nearly-destroyed-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73689","title":{"rendered":"Van catches fire in Pasir Ris car park, front nearly destroyed, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A van caught fire on Saturday (Aug 1) evening, with the blaze almost completely destroying the front of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>In a TikTok video uploaded the same day, the white vehicle parked at a Pasir Ris HDB estate car park was seen engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>A man was seen spraying the van with a fire extinguisher, but despite his efforts, he could not put out the flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width:605px;min-width:325px\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thinkthonk69\/video\/7668990640851586322\" data-video-id=\"7668990640851586322\">\n<section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thinkthonk69?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@thinkthonk69\" rel=\"noopener\">@thinkthonk69<\/a> Vehicle caught fire now at Pasir Ris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/fire?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"fire\" rel=\"noopener\">#fire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Think-7668990705948232455?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound  - Think\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Think<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The incident, which occurred at Blk 127, Pasir Ris Street 11, took place at around 5pm, reported Shin Min Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore Civil Defence Force, in response to AsiaOne&#8217;s queries, said that they received a report on Aug 1 at 5.10pm regarding a fire involving the engine compartment of a van.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire using a water hose and a compressed air foam trolley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported injuries, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Separately on July 30, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/tampines-expressway-car-burns-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) caught fire on the Tampines Expressway<\/a> at about 7.40pm while travelling towards Seletar Expressway, after the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway exit.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the fire involved the engine compartment of the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SCDF said that its firefighters extinguished the fire using a water jet and two hose reels, adding that no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:741054]]<\/p>\n<p>melissateo@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/van-catches-fire-pasir-ris-car-park-front-nearly-destroyed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A van caught fire on Saturday (Aug 1) evening, with the blaze almost completely destroying the front of the vehicle. In a TikTok video uploaded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}